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From the little-but-useful department comes a new addition to Rails that lets you explicitly name the local variable exposed to a partial template when using a collection partial. So, for instance, in this statement:

render :partial => 'employees', :collection => @workers, :as => :person

each element of the workers collection will be exposed as person within the employees template. No longer are you hostage to the singular inflection of your collection name.

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